The last time the world saw Zhao Ziyang, he had a bullhorn
in his hands and tears in his eyes. It was May 19, 1989, and for weeks
students from around China had camped in Tiananmen Square calling for
China's aging leaders to give them democracy. Many saw Zhao, the
reform-minded General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC),
as their greatest hope. When he arrived shortly before dawn,
hunger-striking students literally reached their arms out to him,
thinking the government had backed down and that they had won. But
Zhao brought...